Furl http://www.furl.net/ http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.furl.net/member/mpho3.rss Furl archive. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:32:17 GMT http://www.furl.net/item/36772327/forward http://www.furl.net/item/36772327 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:28:17 GMT writing philosophy racial politics 3 http://www.furl.net/item/35789853/forward http://www.furl.net/item/35789853 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:56:37 GMT education parenting In America we are currently living in a Kindergarchy, under rule by children. People who are raising, or have recently raised, or have even been around children a fair amount in recent years will, I think, immediately sense what I have in mind. Children have gone from background to foreground figures in domestic life, with more and more attention centered on them, their upbringing, their small accomplishments, their right relationship with parents and grandparents. For the past 30 years at least, we have been lavishing vast expense and anxiety on our children in ways that are unprecedented in American and in perhaps any other national life. Such has been the weight of all this concern about children that it has exercised a subtle but pervasive tyranny of its own. This is what I call Kindergarchy: dreary, boring, sadly misguided Kindergarchy. 5 http://www.furl.net/item/34811223/forward http://www.furl.net/item/34811223 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:04:09 GMT music pop culture Many theories are offered for Shillong's fascination with rock and the blues. Some argue that the area's indigenous Khasi traditions are deeply rooted in song and rhyme. Some credit the 19th-century Christian missionaries who came from Britain and the United States, introduced the English language, hymns and gospel music and in turn made the heart ripe for rock. Some say the northeast, remote and in many pockets, gripped by anti-Indian separatist movements, has not been as saturated by Hindi film music as the rest of India. Others speak of that ephemeral quality of rock 'n' roll, able to seep into young, restless bones anywhere. 4 http://www.furl.net/item/34604486/forward http://www.furl.net/item/34604486 I find it ironic that I could only skim this article though I skimmed it several times. Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:04:00 GMT Technology "As we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence." 4 http://www.furl.net/item/34530166/forward http://www.furl.net/item/34530166 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:35:05 GMT pop culture sexuality Dr. Chivers’s work adds to a growing body of scientific evidence that places female sexuality along a continuum between heterosexuality and homosexuality, rather than as an either-or phenomenon. "It’s clear that young people are redrawing the map of sexuality.” 3 http://www.furl.net/item/34510948/forward http://www.furl.net/item/34510948 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:20:10 GMT Technology pop culture The Kindle and iPhone are the end-state and convergence of technologies developed, for the most part, in the 19th century. The only element inherent in both devices that I think might throw our 1908 woman for a loop is the Internet.... Upgrades are not the same thing as paradigm shifts. 4 http://www.furl.net/item/34444830/forward http://www.furl.net/item/34444830 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:38:21 GMT Business pop culture I must confess here to a certain fondness for the station wagon. And just last year, when I was working at one of the local car dealers, a “beauty” of a wood-grained 1995 Buick Century wagon came in on a trade, and I was able to buy it for less than a week’s pay. What a deal! It’s come in very handy for those trips to the home center, and it holds eight passengers when needed. What’s best is, my kids hate being seen in it, so naturally I drive it whenever I can. In North America we’ve always called them station wagons. In France they’re shooting brakes; Great Britain for the most part refers to them as estates; and German manufacturers can’t seem to settle.... 3 http://www.furl.net/item/34444271/forward http://www.furl.net/item/34444271 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:51:51 GMT Science While thinkers and writers still haven't come to terms with the full impact of the forces of globalization, another age is already upon us – one in which man's awareness expands beyond the globe as his relationship with the cosmos intensifies. Ours is no longer just a lonely blue planet amid the heavens but – as we send probes and manned missions to the comos and map the universe, as we enthusiastically search for signs of life elsewhere – seems to exist as part of an open and intricately complex system. The age of cosmozation has arrived. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/34424421/forward http://www.furl.net/item/34424421 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:37:11 GMT africa 3 http://www.furl.net/item/34424294/forward http://www.furl.net/item/34424294 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:19:59 GMT Entertainment Technology music pop culture The resurgence of vinyl centers on a long-standing debate over analog versus digital sound. Digital recordings capture samples of sound and place them very close together as a complete package that sounds nearly identical to continuous sound many people. Analog recordings on most LPs are continuous, which produces a truer sound — though, paradoxically, some new LP releases are being recorded and mixed digitally but delivered analog. 4